road trip

above we see a pic of MK in her XC ski boots, all set and ready to rock on an epic ski on the very sweet greenbush trail system. even better, this ski is gonna take place in the middle of a school/work day - with us having skipped outta both of those things in order to rock & roll and blow the cobwebs out on the fab roller-coaster trails, starting out a mini-road-trip weekend.

" hey dad, where did you put my ski boots?? "

uhhh, yeah. a scene any father can relate to . . . .where did I put HER ski boots . . . . . . . . . . . .

OK, no boots = no ski. no problem, we'll set up camp at the hotel, and then run down to nearby slinger to see freind aris P play a little b-ball against hi cross-town rivals. yeah that'll be awesome, maybe get a couple nice pics for the new blog . . . . . . . . . OK, the camera is with the ski boots.

anyway, turns out aris P can ball. i am sure he turned it on special for the out-of-towners up in the stands, but he came up big with 2 three's, and 14 on the nite. it was super fun to see the always classy mr and mrs P, too. we picked up a small bit of killer news concerning aris and the upcoming season, but i will let gus reveal that. feeling lots better we headed back to the hotel, so the girl could get her beauty rest. saturday had us being treated like royalty at the beautiful campus of ripon college, where the girl was throwing down with her smarts, competing for an insane scholarship package at ric damm's place.



i had to endure a bit of painful group-activities with little-leaugue style parents of smart kids asking inane question for 2 hours or so. judging by some of this, the gene for brains must skip generations ?? i know it did in MK's case. i considered jumping up and strangling a few of the more pompous and/or smug insufferable windbags, but thought it might affect MK's chances for the full ride deal, so i sat on my hands. ric made up for it by saving us a spot at the cool kid's table for lunch - how cool is it to have a college president who is a mtn bike racer ?? we felt good about that, so now it's time to hang by the mailbox and see how she did. i missed a killer ski and even snubbed rick and russell for a tosa ride to get her there, so she better have brought home the goods !! !!